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In January 1869, Black soldiers were being held in the jail at Hays City, Kansas. The Daily Phoenix reported that three of them were taken from the jail by a vigilance committee a night or two before January 17 and hanged. The Fairfield Herald, writing on January 20, described one of the three soldiers as taken by a vigilance committee and hanged.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A vigilance committee took the soldiers from the Hays City jail and hanged them, according to the 1869 dispatch.

Reported by: 1869 newspaper dispatch (reporters).

Sources (2)

• The Daily Phoenix, January 17, 1869, page 7 The Daily Phoenix, January 17, 1869
• The Fairfield Herald, January 20, 1869, page 3 The Fairfield Herald, January 20, 1869